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Date Posted: 09:12:31 02/02/17 Thu
Author: Mark, Drew, Jake, Sean, Cody & Hunter to Tanner
Subject: Re: Weather
In reply to: Tanner 's message, "Re: Weather" on 18:49:58 01/31/17 Tue

Hey Big Brother Tanner,

THANK YOU for sharing some more Great Stories about
your Ancestors trying to tame the West and have their
cattle survive a bad time and weather.

It's like a TV show or Western Movie reading what you
wrote truly happened. "Where's John Wayne when you need
him to help," our mothers and grandmothers will say! He
was always helping people in movies or helped to drive cattle.

(Mark & Jake): Speaking of driving cattle from one place to another for water and grazing, John Wayne made a couple of
movies we have seen on TV and our folks have DVD copies of
"The Cowboys" where John Wayne hires school "boys" to help
drive his cattle to save them and to sell at market and he did another movie "McClintock" that tells about a drought
and John Wayne and Company drive cattle to save them to
get them to water and graze grasses leaving his wife to fend off Indians, etc.

(Mark): Your grandfather was a boy when land was rented and cattle had to be driven 100 miles? WHOW! He was truly a
COWBOY and sounds like one the "boys" John Wayne hired in "THE COWBOYS" movie to drive cattle and fight off rustlers trying to steal the herd.

(Drew): You know how Mark likes food, well I'm going to allow him to ask what he's going to ask because I'm curious and everyone else here is too.

(Mark): There was the cattle drive your ancestors had to
do, your great grandfather and grandfather. Was there a
chuck wagon and cook that traveled along with them to cook
meals, etc., for everyone helping to move the cattle the
100 miles they traveled so they had something to eat?

(Sean): That's interesting about the buffalo bones being bought up, and even shipped by railroad back east. Too
bad nobody knows what they would be used for.

(Hunter): Maybe some were shipped to museums to have the bones reassemble so city people could see what a buffalo
looked like?

(Cody): That reminds me, there is a history museum not
far from here that has in its collection a chair made from
long steer horns. They were used for the body of the chair
outside, back, legs, etc. It's really cool looking. They had a Santa Claus one time at Christmas there and he sat in the chair and if a kid (I did and Hunter, too) had their
photo taken with Santa it looked like Santa had grown horns
out the side of the top of his head.

(Mark, Drew, Jake, Sean): we been to that museum and seen that chair and visited with Santa and did photos, too. It was comical.

(Mark): I'm going to ask this, did those grasshoppers not
only eat crops, but did they eat humans and animals who
got in their way?

(Drew): Mark was thinking about himself, his little butt and how much of a meal it would make. It would make the
grasshoppers a good snack for a few minutes. LOL.

Yeah we heard about, read about the Dust Bowl years in
school. Seen some movies on TV that our parents and
grandparents told us about, one comes to mind "The Grapes
of Wrath" that is shown once in awhile on TV on Turner's
Classic Movies Channel and on late night TV show called
"Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman" where they drove cattle, etc.,
and takes place in Colorado. We remember while driving cattle home that Matthew on the show inherited the cattle,
times were dry and while the cattle drive takes place a
prairie fire happens and the cattle are driven through the
fire to save them to get them from one place of 2 or 3 days
away to home. Lack of rain caused the dry conditions and a lightening storm caused the praire grass fire to start.

Wonder how much $$$ you ancestors had to pay to rent the land to graze the cattle on? Maybe like in some of the shows/movies we mentioned a few the cattle were given as
"rental payment" and your ancestors could have done this,
too?

Gee, your family-ancestors really had some exciting adventures on the prairie. Got some more "stories" to
share and tell? Maybe we should contact Hollywood so
some modern-day movies can be made using this family
history accounts? LOL.

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Re: Weather -- Petedad, 18:09:04 02/06/17 Mon
- Re: Weather -- Mark, Drew, Jake, Sean, Cody & Hunter to Petedad, 09:55:54 02/09/17 Thu